> On Nov 7, 2019, at 7:56 PM, Vladimír Čunát <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> On 10/28/19 10:32 PM, Wessels, Duane wrote:
>> The one defined hash algorithm SHA384 has been renamed to SHA384-STABLE to 
>> reflect that it designed for use on stable (or small) zones where it is not 
>> burdensome to recalculate the digest over the entire zone data each time.
> 
> Tiny nitpick: calling it "SHA384-STABLE" might be a tiny bit confusing
> (to me), as I've seen that word refer to some particular hashing
> approaches/properties.  Actually some of the algorithms that efficiently
> recompute after small changes in large zones... I'd even tend to call
> those digests (more) "stable"/"steady" intuitively, but that might be
> personal :-)  I certainly don't have a strong opinion on the naming and
> don't want to bike-shed, but I could imagine calling it "simple" or
> "flat" or something along those lines.
> 
> [example] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_hashing
> 
> --Vladimir


Hi Vladimir,

Thanks for the feedback!  I guess we settled on stable as being sort of 
opposite to dynamic, but I agree it's not all that great.  I would be okay with 
"simple" or "flat" as well.

DW


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